Title :
Norwegian numerals: a challenge to automatic speech recognition
Author_Institution :
Telenor Res. & Dev., Kjeller, Norway
Abstract :
Addresses the problem of speaker-independent connected-numeral recognition over telephone lines. Increasing the vocabulary from digits (0-9) to numerals (0-99) opens up the possibility for more user-friendly services, but it also introduces many new, language-specific problems. This paper investigates morphological, phonemic and allophonic variations in the pronunciation of numerals in Norwegian. If improvements in recognition performance are to be achieved, these language-specific issues have to be considered
Keywords :
languages; linguistics; speech recognition; telephony; vocabulary; Norwegian numerals; allophonic variations; automatic speech recognition; language-specific problems; morphological variations; phonemic variations; pronunciation; recognition performance; speaker-independent connected-numeral recognition; telephone lines; user-friendly services; vocabulary; Automatic speech recognition; Credit cards; Databases; Distortion; Hidden Markov models; Natural languages; Research and development; Speech recognition; Telephony; Vocabulary;
Conference_Titel :
Spoken Language, 1996. ICSLP 96. Proceedings., Fourth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Philadelphia, PA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3555-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICSLP.1996.607197